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Data portability: the role governments should play – The ODI

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They can ensure the security and privacy of people porting data by developing and encouraging the adoption of common approaches around things like identity, authentication and permissions.

From Data portability: the role governments should play – The ODI.

Indeed, and I think the Three Domain Identity (3DID) model - which looks at the identification, authentication and authorisation (permissions) domains separately but in a consistent and logical framework - is a good way to do this.

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